How to incorporate gaming into your wedding and still keep it tasteful? It's a question many young men and women are dealing with nowadays. So, until we get
The Tasteful Gamer's Wedding by Martha Stewart, we're just going to have to keep figuring it out on our own. This is how Cory Stockton, lead level designer at Blizzard, worked gaming into his wedding:
- Super Mario Bros. wedding cake. (So. Cal. designer Erica O'Brien)
- Legend of Zelda ice sculpture/vodka luge (So. Cal. Union Ice). The sculpture doubled as a vodka luge for martinis and shots at the wedding. If you look close at the images in the gallery you can see the channel flowing diagonal down the center of the sword/shield for the alcohol.
- Tables were all named after video game consoles. The head table was called "Press Start to Begin." There were 23 tables from the NES and NeoGeo, to the Xbox 360.
- The grand entrance music was The Legend of Zelda's overworld theme and the wedding party's music was the Super Mario Bros. World 1-1 theme.
His wife Christi was "100% ok" with those elements, but Stockton says it's mostly because it was his only real involvement with the wedding. He says the guests were happy with the elements as well and they received tons of compliments on the cake and sculpture. For the tables named after consoles Stockton says, "I actually tried to sit people at table names that matched up too. For instance we had the grandparents at the NES table and all the kids at the Wii table. I will say, the Virtual Boy table was not all that popular." More images can be found in the gallery below. Congrats to the couple.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
playwhutyalike @ Oct 3rd 2007 7:14PM
Here come the flames.
ThornedVenom @ Oct 3rd 2007 7:16PM
To cook the cake? LOLOLOLOL
ThornedVenom @ Oct 3rd 2007 7:17PM
I can only wish to find the woman of my dreams one day, sexy enough to fulfill my living dreams, yet geeky enough to accept wedding cakes like these. ;P
Word of the street(IDF-Digital Ruler). @ Oct 3rd 2007 7:18PM
Cake shots in Joystiq?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Nice hto'
playwhutyalike @ Oct 3rd 2007 7:21PM
The Playstation table is the smallest one here.
There I said it.
Of course the Wii table could hold the grandparents and the kids. "Wii would like to sit down".
phattie @ Oct 3rd 2007 7:24PM
Of course, the bastard child, VirtualBoy was nowhere to be found.
Rubang B (NDF - Heart) @ Oct 3rd 2007 7:59PM
As usual, you didn't read the article.
lotrfish @ Oct 3rd 2007 7:25PM
"and all the kids at the Wii table."
This guy is an idiot.
Crrash @ Oct 3rd 2007 7:28PM
you misunderstood it. or do you think grandparents are the core player base of the NES? the Wii just happens to be the "youngest" console, just like the NES is one of the oldest
Word of the street(IDF-Digital Ruler). @ Oct 3rd 2007 7:40PM
Yeah because the wii is so hardcore...
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Actually I beleive it was for the reason Crrash mentioned but I like your thinking,LOL.
lotrfish @ Oct 3rd 2007 9:15PM
"you misunderstood it. or do you think grandparents are the core player base of the NES? the Wii just happens to be the "youngest" console, just like the NES is one of the oldest"
Aww, yeah I did. You're right. Woopsies...
synergificatorizer @ Oct 3rd 2007 7:26PM
Hey Mr. Alexander!
If Joystiq is going to nail an AisleDash link in the corner, you should run this story there too!
Yay affiliates. :-P
Fernando Rocker (NDF - Water Ring) @ Oct 3rd 2007 7:27PM
The Sony table was the one near the bathroom.
Word of the street(IDF-Digital Ruler). @ Oct 3rd 2007 7:37PM
Uh,the tables are named after consoles not companies.
The atari 5600 table was outside...near the garbage cans.
SuperDave @ Oct 4th 2007 11:04AM
What's an Atari 5600?
Babel @ Oct 4th 2007 11:59AM
Exactly.
playwhutyalike @ Oct 3rd 2007 7:33PM
The 360 table is back at Microsoft getting repaired.
The Wii's tablecloth has 480 threads of detail.
Ok, I'm done now.
Bortlett @ Oct 3rd 2007 8:12PM
And the Wii table was two Gamecube tables taped together?
Sorry, couldn't resist =\
playwhutyalike @ Oct 3rd 2007 9:41PM
The salt and pepper shakers have wrist straps on them at the Wii table.
Anni @ Oct 3rd 2007 7:41PM
The DS table was actually just two smaller tables put together.
Oh MAN, that ice sculpture is awesome.
edd @ Oct 3rd 2007 7:44PM
It seems like quite an oversight to not have the underground dungeon level as the bottom tier of the wedding cake... sloppy, just sloppy
sheppy2.0 @ Oct 3rd 2007 8:03PM
Signs you spend too much time in Photoshop #329
You can identify fonts on signs...
3cubed minus 3squared plus1 @ Oct 3rd 2007 8:19PM
lol
yeah I noticed that too.
Only because Vivaldi is my favorite font though.
a_p77 @ Oct 3rd 2007 8:07PM
now if only my girl will allow a wedding of this sort... maybe if it was Mario themed but thats the only way it will fly.
Saria the Cat @ Oct 3rd 2007 8:11PM
Awww. I would love to have a video game themed wedding, but it would only seem appropriate if there were enough game-savvy guests attending. I'm basically the only gamer in the family... :\
Rubang B (NDF - Heart) @ Oct 3rd 2007 8:17PM
Why is the water level above the OVERWORLD? It should be water at the bottom, underworld, then overworld, with the ? on top! I will consider this couple unmarried until I see a REAL cake.
Saria the Cat @ Oct 3rd 2007 8:26PM
You, sir, are funny.
Rubang B (NDF - Heart) @ Oct 3rd 2007 8:20PM
I'm gonna pay a performance art group to reenact a zerg rush at my wedding.
Rob Accomando @ Oct 3rd 2007 8:27PM
wow, that's awesome! I wish I could have done that at my wedding.
Xeno Mezphy @ Oct 3rd 2007 8:48PM
I deem that this wedding was comprised of concentrated awesome.
Lixie @ Oct 3rd 2007 8:48PM
I suspect the guy loves Nintendo more than he loves Blizzard.
h8rain @ Oct 4th 2007 9:11AM
See that is what I was thinking.....Guy works for Blizzard, no love for Diablo, Starcraft, or WoW?
mrbigjonstud @ Oct 3rd 2007 8:54PM
wow those are some really cool works of art, that was probably a very fun wedding :)
AgentESPIO7 @ Oct 3rd 2007 9:26PM
I wonder if the bride and groom's parents liked this idea... my parents would've gone crazy.
zwarrior @ Oct 3rd 2007 10:27PM
More accurate name for the head table should've been "Game Over"
j/k weddings own
Geist @ Oct 3rd 2007 10:29PM
Really? Because a traditional wedding is _always_ better, even if you want something else? Sheesh. You do your wedding your way, saying someone else's is sad is a little ignorant.
Einhanderkiller @ Oct 3rd 2007 11:15PM
I find it odd that he didn't have anything themed as a Blizzard game (StarCraft, WarCraft, Diablo, etc.).
danny. (fdf.) @ Oct 4th 2007 12:12AM
right, but at the same time, the last thing he probably wants is a wedding with a theme reflecting his work. Blizzard is the guy's work. The rest is hobby...
Matt @ Oct 4th 2007 12:25AM
"100% ok" means "I hated it, but I had to accept it" in womanspeak.
I love games and my girlfriend does as well, but I can't imagine ever doing anything as childish as this. Wasted money and resources doing something most of the guests will think is tacky and in 20 years you will regret.
isajeep @ Oct 4th 2007 1:34AM
Yeah, but this is this guy's livelihood. You(guessing)and I are simply gamers for fun. This man works on games for a living. His guests probably enjoyed it. Also, why would he regret it in 20 years? Do you have any idea how cool their kids will think this is?
Matt @ Oct 4th 2007 2:18AM
I too work as a game designer and I know I'd laugh at my parents if they had a theme wedding, and I certainly hope my future children would do the same. Hell, I'd give any friend a lot of crap if they wanted to do this.
It's like those folks who get video-game related tattoos (or most tattoos, for that matter) to celebrate something they probably won't care about in ten years time.
vgxtremist @ Oct 4th 2007 12:35AM
I would buy a giant freezer or something to preserve that Zelda scupture for all of time.
2ez @ Oct 4th 2007 12:44AM
A picture is fine too.
John Doe. @ Oct 4th 2007 2:22AM
So did the bride dress as princess Peach?
Gunner McGrath @ Oct 4th 2007 9:15AM
Funny, we're also using the Zelda theme as our processional.. though ours will be played by a brass quintet!
PIZman @ Oct 4th 2007 10:04AM
At my wedding, I was able to sneak in a couple video game songs played by our piano player during cocktail hour. I had to prepare the sheet music for him weeks ahead of time (thanks MIDIs and MIDI-to-sheet-music converters!), and had to go through some dissappointments (you mean there's NOT an easy Mega Man song for one person with TWO hands to do?). All in all, it was great - I got the Animal Crossing theme and the Legend of Zelda title screen song. Suave enough that the older crowd didn't wonder what that racket was, and recognizable enough for all of the younger crowd to give me the thumbs up as it played.
Thank you for your time.
Ladyofthelake @ Oct 8th 2007 11:41AM
I want a cake like this at my wedding!!!!
This one or the console-stacked one. It's non-negotiable, husband-to-be will have to deal with it.